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Can you point out where in the article it advocates teaching students AAVE? Rebecca Wheeler, the professor at Christopher Newport University mentioned at the o
by blocking_io 14y ago
Can you point out where in the article it advocates teaching students AAVE?
Rebecca Wheeler, the professor at Christopher Newport University mentioned at the outset, is a descriptivist, like all linguists. She says that these kids are speaking AAVE because that’s what they know; it’s not wrong — it’s their language. She thus advocates teaching students who speak AAVE at home the concept of code-switching. The general idea is simply the notion of switching between two different languages as needed.
- Evbn 14y ago"She is a descriptivist, like all linguists." Is that statement descriptivist or prescriptivist? ;-)